Learner plasma hot enuf for pB11 reaction?

classicpenny · Post by **classicpenny** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:54 am

Apologies if this is already up. I couldn't find it.
http://www.prlog.org/11832509-new-jerse ... urnal.html

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:39 pm

Doesn't look like they are claiming a P-b11 run? But temps high enough for P-b11?

The temperatures observed are high enough to ignite the nuclear fusion of “aneutronic” fuels like hydrogen and boron.

kcdodd · Post by **kcdodd** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:42 pm

i wonder how they are doing their ion temperature measurement.

Joseph Chikva · Post by **Joseph Chikva** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:01 pm

Roger wrote:Doesn't look like they are claiming a P-b11 run? But temps high enough for P-b11?

The temperatures observed are high enough to ignite the nuclear fusion of “aneutronic” fuels like hydrogen and boron.

So, yesterday they have already achieved ignition for DT.

classicpenny · Post by **classicpenny** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:43 pm

http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v1 ... ypassSSO=1

Ivy Matt · Post by **Ivy Matt** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:15 pm

Wow, thanks!

Although I was going to get around to requesting a copy from Derek Shannon anyway.

Joseph Chikva wrote:So, yesterday they have already achieved ignition for DT.

Temperature: check
Confinement time: check
Density: in progress

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:55 pm

Yeah, the density is going to be a big issue that they have yet to solve. It is really great to watch them make progress though.

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Learner plasma hot enuf for pB11 reaction?

Learner plasma hot enuf for pB11 reaction?

The original paper: